100% agree that bookmarks need a better solution. Whoever does it will change the game.
I'm a bookmarks hoarder. If I encounter a useful site, I bookmark it.
I have about 20,000 bookmarks on Chrome now.
Someone on HN once described bookmarks as a "knowledge graph". That's an apt description for what they do for me.
I've long given-up trying to neatly organize my bookmarks in folders. Now I use lots of keywords (as pseudo-tags) while saving a bookmark, with the hope that I'll be able to use the correct keywords later when looking for the bookmark.
I would, however, like save them neatly in folders.
In case someone from the Chrome team is reading this, some features that would really change the game for us bookmark hoarders are:
1. bookmarks search: allow us to search exclusively within a folder.
2. bookmarks search: option to search only folder names.
3. when saving a bookmark, give us a search box we can use to search folder names, and then quickly identify and pick a folder to save the bookmark in.
Why do you have to create the folders for your bookmarks yourself? Can you use a classification AI to automatically put the bookmarks in a variety of categories based on the contents of the page?
You would then only need to add tags such as "read this on the weekend", "send to my wife later when I'm not at work" or "use this one in my upcoming blog post".
Otherwise, having them organized would be really handy when you are browsing your bookmarks or trying to find something you saw a few months back but can't remember the right keywords for it to show up in a search again.
If you are interested, check out my bookmarker extension BrainTool. For #3 BT makes it easy to save pages into a folder hierarchy with autocomplete and a tree view. All saved items have associated text notes (which could be #tags) and everything is incrementally searchable, approximating #1 and #4.
I'm a bookmarks hoarder. If I encounter a useful site, I bookmark it.
I have about 20,000 bookmarks on Chrome now.
Someone on HN once described bookmarks as a "knowledge graph". That's an apt description for what they do for me.
I've long given-up trying to neatly organize my bookmarks in folders. Now I use lots of keywords (as pseudo-tags) while saving a bookmark, with the hope that I'll be able to use the correct keywords later when looking for the bookmark.
I would, however, like save them neatly in folders.
In case someone from the Chrome team is reading this, some features that would really change the game for us bookmark hoarders are:
1. bookmarks search: allow us to search exclusively within a folder.
2. bookmarks search: option to search only folder names.
3. when saving a bookmark, give us a search box we can use to search folder names, and then quickly identify and pick a folder to save the bookmark in.
4. tags for bookmark (similar to tags in Gmail).